Does your wife know you are setting those tri-pods up on her hardwood floors? Jp

I agree that the air would give you a different perspective, and commend you on thinking outside the box. Jp

[sarcasm]Another great product from Trimble! Jp[/sarcasm]

5/8 rebar makes a piss poor monument in my opinion. It is the same material that every contractor uses to pull string line for marking before constru...

Yeah, I had the same problem. I quit the field and took an office job now I have sore A$$ (HIPS) from sitting all the time. 🙂 Jp

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Bang it gently upside down and blow it out with canned air. Jp

I will have to try that one next time, as long as it isn't Michael Waltrip. I can hardly watch NASCAR when he is commentating. Jp

If you ever get to a NASCAR race you can listen to the drivers and race control. Makes it much more interesting. Jp

There is nothing wrong with the way you do it. Then as you feel more comfortable with the tools implement what these guys are saying. When I first i...

I wondered about that! How do you work around the message that pops up continuously? I always feel like the instrument is going to melt down if I do...

When I did a lot of heavy construction staking on multistory buildings I would pull my hair out laying out floor control on the next floor of many. W...

Yes, I still have an old hp 95 with survey pro loaded and it had a program called grade book that worked real good for checking that your alignments f...

Stake out offset. You will need to set the instrument to manual if not connected to instrument, and set up a fake back sight. Then put in station an...

Ck it on something you have already closed. Or do two sets of measurements, one robotic and one manually. It takes a little time before you get comf...

Do a hard boot. Jp

Right on, let’s do our own scientific study on this board. We used 2" PVC pipe over a tee bar for witnesses to the corner. I never recall finding bi...

I agree with the prism offset of always being zero. I never have to worry if I changed my prism constants with the geodimeter zero (2mm/0.0065') pris...